Department Placement History

Berkeley's political science graduate students have a strong record in securing academic employment, and continue to secure faculty and postdoc positions at the most competitive institutions in the US and abroad.

The Department of Political Science offers job search and placement file services for its Ph.D. candidates and alumni who are seeking academic or non-academic careers. The placement service provides job candidates with information on job vacancies and fellowships, help with establishing and mailing placement files, job-related research materials, and job search skills counseling.

 

2021

Faculty Positions

  • University of Oregon
  • University of Michigan
  • Harvard
  • Lewis & Clark
  • London School of Economics & Political Science
  • Claremont

Postdocs

  • John Hopkins University
  • University of Pennsylvania 
  • Kenyon College
  • European University Institute
  • Princeton
  • Stanford
  • UC Berkeley
2020

Faculty Positions

  • University of North Florida
  • Princeton

Postdocs

  • University of Southern California
  • Harvard
  • Stanford
  • University of Michigan
  • William & Mary
  • Princeton
  • UC Santa Barbara
2019

Faculty Positions

  • The College of William and Mary
  • Goethe University
  • Lafayette College
  • Miami University
  • Texas A&M University
  • United States Naval Academy
  • University of Pittsburgh

Postdocs

  • Duke University
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Southern California
2018

Faculty Positions

  • City University of Hong Kong, Department of Asian & International Studies
  • IE University, School of International Relations
  • Seton Hall University
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Southern California
  • Yale University

Postdocs

  • Duke University
  • Oxford University, Nuffield College
  • Princeton University
  • Stanford University
  • University of Michigan, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
  • University of Notre Dame, Center for the Study of Religion & Society
  • York University, Glendon College
2017

Faculty Positions

  • Auburn University at Montgomery
  • Georgetown University
  • Ohio State University
  • Smith College
  • University of Denver
  • University of Hawaii
  • University of Notre Dame

Postdocs

  • Dartmouth College, John Sloan Dickey Center of International Understanding
  • European University Institute in Florence, Italy
  • Tulane University, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies
  • University of Pennsylvania, Perry World House
  • University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Study of Contemporary China
2016

Faculty Positions

  • Clark University 
  • Florida State University
  • George Washington University
  • Hamilton College
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Marquette University
  • Pratt Institute
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of Denver
  • University of Massachusetts, Boston
  • University of Rochester
  • University of Southern California 
  • University of Virginia
  • Villanova University 
  • Yale University

Postdocs

  • Bates College
  • Duke University
  • Georgetown University
  • Palm Center, San Francisco State University
  • Stanford University
  • University of Southern California
  • Vanderbilt University 
2015

Faculty Positions

  • Stanford University
  • University of Chicago
  • University of New Hampshire
  • University of Notre Dame
  • University of Rochester
  • Wake Forest University
  • York University, Toronto

Postdocs

  • Connecticut College
  • Council on Foreign Relations
  • Hamilton University
  • Harvard Kennedy School
  • Harvard Mahindra Center for the Humanities
  • Harvard Safra Center for Ethics
2014

Faculty Positions

  • Kenyon College
  • Northwestern University
  • Syracuse University
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of Southern California
  • University of Toronto

Postdocs

  • Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013

Faculty Positions

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Rutgers University
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Yale University
  • Colby College
  • Pepperdine University
  • Whitman College
  • Institute for Advanced Study – Faculty Fellowship
  • Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Postdocs

  • Harvard University, Fairbanks Center 
  • Tulane University, CIPR 
2012

Faculty Positions

  • Brown University
  • Bryn Mawr College
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Rutgers University
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Merced
  • University of Chicago
  • Villanova University
  • Wittenberg University
  • Yale University

Postdocs

  • Franklin Marshall 
  • Harvard Davis Center 
  • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies 
  • Stanford University 
  • Tulane University 
2011

Faculty Positions

  • American University
  • Dickinson College
  • Grinnell College
  • Loyola Marymount University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Middlebury College
  • Roskilde University
  • The George Washington University
  • University of California, San Diego
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Guam
  • University of Notre Dame School of Law
  • Whittier Law School
  • Yale University

Postdocs

  • Asian Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul
  • European University Institute
  • Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
  • Mills College
  • Notre Dame Kellogg Institute
  • Stanford University
  • University of San Francisco
  • Woodrow Wilson Center, Kennan Institute
2010

Faculty Positions

  • Boston College
  • Drexel University
  • Harvard Kennedy School
  • Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs
  • Mills College
  • Pomona College
  • Union College
  • University of Colorado Denver
  • University of Georgia
  • University of Hong Kong
  • The University of Texas at Austin

Postdocs

  • University of Technology, Sydney
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2009

Faculty Positions

  • Bard College
  • Boston University
  • Butler University
  • Chapman University
  • Grinnell College
  • Koc University (Turkey)
  • Michigan State
  • Mills College
  • Naval Postgraduate School
  • Santa Clara University
  • Smith College

Post-docs

  • Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program
  • Harvard Society of Fellows
  • Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
  • University of Bamberg, Germany
  • University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute
  • Yale University Center for Race, Ethnicity and Migration
2008

Faculty Positions

  • California State Univerisity, Long Beach
  • City University of New York, Baruch College
  • Claremont Mckenna
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Loyola College in Maryland
  • Middlebury College
  • Naval Postgraduate School
  • Princeton University
  • Temple University
  • U-Mass Amherst (2)
  • University of Washington Bothell
  • University of the Pacific
  • Virginia Military Academy
  • Wesleyan University

Post-docs

  • German Marshall Fund, Washington DC
  • Stanford Public Policy Program
  • USC-Center for Internatioal Studies
  • Yale University
2007

Faculty Positions

  • Baruch College/CUNY
  • Brandeis University
  • CNA Corporation (2)
  • The George Washington University (2)
  • Georgetown
  • International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome
  • Michigan State University
  • Montana State University, Bozeman
  • National University of Singapore
  • Naval Postgraduate School (2)
  • New York University
  • Pitzer College
  • Seton Hall University
  • The Ohio State University
  • Tulane University
  • United States Naval Academy, Annapolis
  • University of California, Irvine
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2)
  • University of Oregon, Eugene
  • University of San Francisco
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Yonsei University

Post-docs

  • Brown University
  • Harvard University (2)
  • Stanford University
  • University of California, Berkeley